You can build Android widgets easily using third-party apps. KWGT and WidgetClub make it simple to design custom tools that ...

Android app widgets may look pretty simple – essentially, they’re just small windows that users embed in an App Widget Host, typically their device’s homescreen – but your average application widget ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...

Most of the home-screen widgets you’ll find for Android devices are little more than glorified shortcuts to your various apps—or, if you’re lucky, they’ll offer up recent (but often useless) headlines ...

A good Android widget can make your home screen attractive, effective, and extra-useful as a starting point for all your mobile productivity needs. (The same applies for your mobile procrastination ...

Samsung’s One UI 7 update focuses on better widgets, prompting Google to urge third-party developers to do the same. Google is heavily promoting widgets, with plans for widget search filters, a ...

Android 16 adds a new “multiuser” widget that lets you quickly switch between users on a device. This widget has tappable buttons for each user, indicated by their profile picture. The widget also ...

Back in the way earlier days of Android, Google supported the ability to run widgets on the lockscreen, but the functionality faded away in later releases. Now, Android seems to be reviving lockscreen ...

Chrome is set to offer a new home screen widget for Android to match the delightful ones added to Chrome for iOS. Update: Chrome’s Android widget has gotten further along in development, revealing ...